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...Sand Mountain area between Chattanooga, Tenn., and Gadsden, Ala., is no place for pilgrims. It is a land of mountaineers who tote rifles in their cars, glare in suspicion at strangers, and believe unshakably in racial segregation. Last month William Moore, a onetime mental patient, thought he might change things by walking through the area displaying civil rights signs. It cost him his life; he was found shot dead on U.S. Highway 11 (TIME, May 3). Last week, following in his footsteps, came ten more civil rights hikers. They were arrested as they crossed the Alabama line, but others were...
About the only group not consulted was Imam Mohammed and his royalists, whose grip on Yemen has dwindled from half the country to the mountain spine in central Yemen. Some 25,000 armed supporters of the Imam are still in action and still dangerous, but they are increasingly isolated, and short of fuel and weapons. With the royalists cut off from Saudi supplies, Nasser may well be able gradually to consolidate his gains, cut down on his commitments, and ultimately complete his victory by admitting republican Yemen into his grandiose scheme for a new United Arab Republic...
...Mammoth Mountain, for instance, 11,034 ft. up in the Sierras and about 300 miles north of Los Angeles, 1,500 to 3,000 men, women and children will be schussing their weekends away at least until the Fourth of July (last year the skiing lasted well into August). And it is not only the men's straw hats and the girls' flowered bonnets, the Bermuda shorts, lederhosen, sawed-off jeans and occasional bathing suits that mark the difference between warm-weather skiers and the blizzard brand...
...tows as the sun crosses the yardarm, basking in the long sun after lunch. Their siestas are prolonged because the midday snow is apt to be mushy, because spring snow is harder to ski, and because fewer skiers and longer hours mean more skiing and more fatigue. At Mammoth Mountain, this may lead to an added pleasure. Skiers tuck wine bottles under their arms, trek ten miles down the valley to Hot Creek, where 100° water from underground springs pours into a wide gulch. There they can loll the rest of the day away, soaking and sipping beneath snow...
Scholarly Swarms. Where is the multiversity going? At a time when C. P. Snow estimates that about 80% of the West's pure science research is going on in the U.S., says Kerr, "good scholars tend to swarm together," and university centers are coalescing into "mountain ranges" of higher education. Kerr charts three "great plateaus." The first runs from Boston to Washington, D.C., embraces 46% of the nation's Nobel science winners and 40% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences. Next comes the West Coast university complex with 36% and 20%, followed...